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Some people use tiny Linux VMs to interact with some devices, and then relay whatever they need back to the FreeBSD host. For example wifibox or https://joshua.
by mmsc 2y ago
Some people use tiny Linux VMs to interact with some devices, and then relay whatever they need back to the FreeBSD host. For example wifibox or https://joshua.hu/facetimehd-webcam-linux-vm-macbook-freebsd-broadcom-1570 https://joshua.hu/facetimehd-webcam-linux-vm-macbook-freebsd...
- sunshine-o 2y agoActually I believe this is the smart way to "fix" the problem. We could even imagine building those tiny VMs based on bsd-hardware.info for popular hardware profiles. Keep FreeBSD small and clean, focus on innovation and performance, leverage virtualization and the good work done by Linux devs. Then, if we get decent podman support I am more than happy.
- mmsc 2y agoThe problem is that this only works if your hardware supports emulation and you can actually use PCI pass through - for USB devices, you'd need to pass the whole USB hub, for example.